The question that makes fundies hostile

[Drich]

Drich has a point that slavery exists in the Western world in all but name... We don't call these things slavery, but they look an awful lot like it.

Indeed he does. That's also unethical & I'm opposed to that, too. Given modern technology and production, management & logistic methods, there should be no barrier to equitable provision for all, at no cost to the user, of the modern 'basics':

- food
- water
- shelter
- healthcare
- energy
- education
- transport

That provision would all but end 'wage slavery'. Combined with certain legal changes to address issues such as the Prison Industrial Complex and abuse of sex-workers, we could see an end to the vast majority of quasi-slavery. The main problem is that the various current forms of Free-market capitalism are in direct opposition to those ideals and the banks & big corps meddle with our governments all the time.

I dedicate what time I can to fighting for equitable distribution of 'the 7 resources' and fighting against damage to any existing provision (e.g. NHS budget cuts).

...but I'm starting to rant. The point is that even though these things look a lot like slavery, indeed could be construed as institutionalised slavery, they do not provide one individual with the legal right to own another.

Education is not the answer to slavery. Soceity needs to have the Haves and Have nots in order for it to work. If everyone 'has,' then who will do the meanial jobs only the 'have nots' normally did?

Look at what 20+ years of pushing higher education has done for this country. Everyone has a collage degree, which makes a collage degree worthless. why? because everyone has on. (Everyone 'has.') One would be luck to get a job as a 'bug man' with a collage degree now. Because the market is now flooded with worthless degrees. It's like printing money, the more you print the less value it actually has.

The only way what you are suggesting will work is in a communist soceity, and even then as per China and the USSR's example we know that does not work either.

We NEED slaves inorder for the current model of soceity we know to work. There is no way around that. The only option we have is to pretend that we don't, and shun those who suggest otherwise. (To bury our heads in the sand.) Which means those who do work as slaves have to work for people who go completely unregulated. Which if history is any indicator, is not a good thing.